Janet Smith: The Good News and Bad News Regarding Humanae Vitae

Fifty years after the promulgation of Humanae Vitae, there is reason to be optimistic – the efforts of many people and programs are bringing the good news about God’s plan for sexuality to more and more people in the midst of a culture whose thinking about sexuality is skewed beyond belief. But theologians who are more shaped by the culture than the Church are again attacking the teaching, this time, focusing on the argument that “the teaching has not been received” and that we must respect the “subjectivity” of persons. This talk will address those arguments as well as show that we are making progress!